A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838 |
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Page 115
Ever since the British government had offered advice and encouragement to
settlers to proceed to Van Diemen's Land, a steady stream had arrived in Hobart
Town, and had taken up land in the Derwent valley area, or the Longford district ...
Ever since the British government had offered advice and encouragement to
settlers to proceed to Van Diemen's Land, a steady stream had arrived in Hobart
Town, and had taken up land in the Derwent valley area, or the Longford district ...
Page 128
They wrote of improvident settlers going to merchants for a chest of tea, for bags
of sugar, gallons of rum, and slops for their men, and telling the merchant: 'Sir, I
have no money'. The foolish settlers, like the foolish virgins, gave warrants of ...
They wrote of improvident settlers going to merchants for a chest of tea, for bags
of sugar, gallons of rum, and slops for their men, and telling the merchant: 'Sir, I
have no money'. The foolish settlers, like the foolish virgins, gave warrants of ...
Page 260
As for migrant labour, the settlers feared the colony would be saturated with a
class of persons worse than convicts, because they would be far less under
control. Government, they believed, had been seduced by the example of
America ...
As for migrant labour, the settlers feared the colony would be saturated with a
class of persons worse than convicts, because they would be far less under
control. Government, they believed, had been seduced by the example of
America ...
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Contents
DARKNESS | 1 |
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838 Volume 2 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 2 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2011 |
| Length | 200 pages |
| Subjects | › Australia History / Australia & New Zealand History / General History / Oceania |
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